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A New Development Bank for Infrastructure and Sustainability

Nicholas Stern, Amar Bhattacharya, Mattia Romani, Joseph Stiglitz
Project Syndicate 05/02/13

The BRICs are financing infrastructure and sustainable development at home and in other developing countries.

Every Day We Put the State on Trial

Ai Weiwei
Creative Time 04/19/13

Art bears a unique responsibility in the search for truth, writes Ai Weiwei as he prepares a budding Chinese civil society to imagine change.

Social Covenants Must Precede Social Contracts

Seth Kaplan 04/09/13

Fragile states that do not first forge a social covenant will later find it difficult to codify justice in a social contract.

United States Takes India to the WTO over Domestic Solar

Shakuntala Makhijani
Worldwatch Institute 04/01/13

Rather than engaging in trade disputes, the United States should establish its own solar capacity targets to stimulate additional demand for solar equipment.

Will Global Voluntarism Supersede Rule of Law?

Harris Gleckman 03/22/13

The World Economic Forum is advocating a move toward coalitions of the willing and able for solving global problems. Will it work?

Can NASA Stop Global Warming?

Jim Hartung
Project Syndicate 02/28/13

NASA needs a compelling mission that is relevant to current global affairs. Obama should apply NASA expertise to questions of geoengineering.

What I Talk About When I Talk About Sustainability

Josh Lasky 02/06/13

The ease with which sustainability rolls off the tongue these days far surpasses our understanding of it or our implementation. A few changes in attitude could be helpful.

The Asian Century: Over Before It Even Began

Devin T. Stewart 01/03/13

Between territorial disputes, cultural incoherence, and divided views on the role of the state, don't expect an Asian Century to start anytime soon, says Devin T. Stewart.

Innovation Crisis or Financial Crisis?

Kenneth Rogoff
Project Syndicate 12/10/12

Is humanity running out of ideas, or just easy access to credit? Kenneth Rogoff critiques Garry Kasparov on whether technology has stagnated.

Send Salads to Ethiopia, and Solar Panels to Senegal

Todd Moss
Center for Global Development 12/06/12

We wouldn't send salads as food relief to a starving country, so why is the Overseas Private Investment Corporation doing the equivalent in the energy sector?

As Asia Waltzes Forward on Two Right Feet, America Fixates on the Middle East

James Farrer 11/20/12

The United States can be effective in its pivot toward Asia by using its influence to help resolve territorial disputes and defuse the rightward lurch in China and Japan.

The Energy of Society: What's at Stake this Election

Eric Zencey 11/01/12

This election gives us a choice between two clearly different paths. Will we take the first halting steps toward developing a sustainable civilization, or will we stay the course with infinite-planet economics?

Cities and Climate Change: Small Enough to Act, Big Enough to Matter

Shin-pei Tsay 10/09/12

As geographies of innovation and sites of citizen power, cities have become the critical link in global efforts to deal with climate change.

Boat Migrants to Australia Deserve Their Refugee Rights

Christian Barry, Jonathan Simon 10/01/12

Asylum seekers who come to Australia by boat have been accused of jumping the queue in the immigration process, but are they really gaining an unfair advantage?

Finding the Keys to National Prosperity

Jeffrey Sachs
Project Syndicate 09/27/12

Swedish pensions. Canadian health care. Costa Rican happiness. American science. By opening our eyes to policy successes abroad, we would speed the path to national improvement in countries around the world.